Thanks, it's just the PDF of the village square flipmat along with some tokens I made Photoshopped in.

Again I appologize for the delay in begining the AP. When I got to work this morning I realized I had left the flash drive, that i had copied all my pictures and files from my desktop to, on my desk at home and since I do about 80% of my posting from work I kind of screwed myself till I got home.

Start anywhere on the map. You've all gathered in the town square to listen to Father Zantus give the dedication speech for the new temple. Once everyone is accounted for I'll update the map and give you the introduction.

Sorry all, What I thought was going to be a quiet evening watching the Bears game and working on the campaign turned into helping my wife babysit two seven year olds and a two year old while her friends went to the game.

That being said I have the begining map up, please take a look at it and indicate your starting positions before I begin the first encounter.

Welcome all to the Discussion thread for my Rise of the Runelords: Anniversary Edition campaign. Please take the time to introduce yourselves and to amke any last minute adjustments to your characters that you feel might be necessary.
Thank you for taking the time to apply and we'll get this show on the road shortly.

Thank you all for applying, I wish I could make room for you all, but unfortunately a perty of 36 would draw unwanted attention. So i've managed to whitle it down to Six applicants (Yes, I said six). So I would like to invite the following characters to join me on this epic adventure.

To the rest of you I'm sorry that you were not chosen and hope that you and your characters can find the adventure that you seek.

Unforunately I'm pressed for time and don't have any to create a Game thread and OOC thread right now. I will have one up later tonight after I return home. When I do I will post the links here. Thank you for your patience.

Okay all, I'm in the CST (Northwest Chicago) area. Tomorrow I'll be at a company party at the local pumpkin patch with my wife and daughter most of the afternoon, then at my friend's birthday party in the evening, so don't expect the final selection to be posted before late afternoon, around 4 pm CST.

Hey all, sorry for the delay but i've been pretty busy at work these past few days. That being said i've finally gotten through all the current submissions and will be PM'ing questions to people today and tomorrow.
If anybody wants to submit another character in another category, please feel free to do so. I would rather have an embarrassment of riches as far as selection goes.

Sorry all, I've been really busy yesterday and today and haven't had a chance to go over everyone's characters in depth yet.
Also, due to the scheduled maintenance downtime, I'm going to extend the recruitment until Saturday noonish.

Also, are regional languages, in particular Varisian, available as a learnable language?

Yes, they are available to learn. If you're going with a Human, please select your ethnicity. Once you've chosen that you get your ethnic language for free in addition to Common (Ex. if you choose to play an ethnic Varisian your starting languages would be Varisian and Common).

I’m looking for five players for an upcoming Rise of the Runelords: Anniversary Edition PbP game I’ll be running. Recruitment will be open from now until 6:00 pm Friday, October 19th.
I usually prefer to select one type from each of the 'Big Four' character roles (i.e. 1 Arcane, 1 Divine, 1 Martial, and 1 Skilled plus an additional character (generally a hybrid class or an additional martial character, depending on which I feel the party needs more)). It's not a hard and fast rule, but thats the way things generally turn out.

Now for the fun part, the rules:
• Races: All standard races from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook will be allowed. Any other PC race will be considered on a case by case basis.
• Classes: All classes from PFRPG core rulebook plus those from the Advanced Player's Guide (APG), Ultimate Combat (UC), and Ultimate Magic (UM) will be allowed. Any Archetype for these base classes (again from the APG, UM, or UC) will be allowed.
• Alignment: Characters can be of any Good or Neutral alignment. No evil alignments will be allowed.
• Abilities: Characters will be based on the High Fantasy (20 point) buy, found in the PFRPG Core Rulebook on page 16. No ability can be raised higher than 18 (prior to racial modifiers). Only one ability may be lowered below 10 and that ability cannot be lowered below 8 (prior to racial modifiers).
• Feats: Any feat from the Core Rulebook, APG, UM, or UC will be acceptable. Any 3.5 or 3PP material you wish to use will have to be approved by me prior to acceptance.
• Traits: Character's will start with two traits, one of which MUST be from the Rise of the Runelords: Anniversary Edition Player's Guide or from the Shadows Under Sandpoint section of the Traits chapter of the APG.
• Hit Points: Characters will start out with Maximum hit points for their class at 1st level. After 1st level character's will roll for their hit points or take the average of their particular hit dice (rounded up), whichever is greater.
• Starting Gold: Characters will start with Maximum starting gold for their base class as found in the PFRPG Core Rulebook on page 140, or in the APG on page 26.

Right now I'm looking for character concepts and background information on said character (it can be as detailed or as vague as you want (From a few lines to a full blown character profile. Just remember the more information I have the more I can make an informed decision about who will eventually join the game).

That's about all I can think of for now, but please feel free to post any particular questions you might have.

I'd like to throw my hat into the ring.
I'm thinking of a Human (Taldan) Bard (Archaeologist) who has traveled from Taldor to the Stolen Lands to search for ancient ruins and tombs from the Taldan conquest of the area.
Think kind of like an Medieval Indiana Jones (complete with whip) well versed on Arcana, Dungeoneering, History, and Religion.
I'll post a more complete profile later

Better late than never. I'd like to throw my hat into the ring.
I'm thinking of a Human (Taldan) Bard (Archaeologist ) who has traveled from Taldor to the Stolen Lands to search for ancient ruins and tombs from the Taldan conquest of the area (Yes, I got the idea from reading the Gameplay thread and the haunted monument, excellent idea there Motteditor).
Think kind of like an Medieval Indiana Jones (complete with whip) well versed on Arcana, Dungeoneering, History, and Religion.
I'll post a more complete profile later.

I'm creating a character, a Gnome Sorcerer (Fey), for an upcoming Kingmaker campaign and wanted to run it by the community before I finalize anything. Below is what I have come up with so far. The character is based on a 20-point buy. Take a look at it and tell me what you would change.
Thanks,
AJM

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Sorry all, a recent schedule change at work and the recent storms that passed through the Midwest have played havoc on my free time at work. I've barely had time to keep up with the posts let alone sit down and compose a thoughtful post.
Now that things have cleared up I will sit down and take the time to catch up and get something up later today.
Again my apologies.

Seeing as things have changed, can everyone give the FINAL coordinates of where there character will be when the bandits arrive, otherwise I will go with what I have posted above. Once set I can get the party started.

Agnatha will be hiding on the walkway at V-11
Caelius and Holbrecht will be hiding behind the doors at V-18 and V-13, respectively.
Davor and Ragnor will be hiding in the barn at O-10 and N-10
and Tarith will be in the main house at L-21.
Does that sound about right?

Sorry all, I'm not ignoring you. But right now I am suffering from a major allergy attack and a mother of a sinus headache. I just popped a couple of Benadryl and am headed off to bed. I promise to get to your question first thing in the morning.

That's kind of a bad example since EVERYONE beat the bandits initiative. In that case everyone would go in posting order until the bandit's turn, after which I would post a round summary with added flavor text.

In this example the Alpha wolf would attack first followed by group #1 consisting of Davor and Holbrecht in posting order.
Ragnor and I would then have to roll off (since we both have the same initiative number and modifier). If Ragnor wins he goes with group #1, the the wolf pack wins Ragnor goes with Group #2.
Group #2 consisting of Agnatha, Caelius, Ragnor (possibly), and Tarith would then follow the wolf pack, in posting order.
Again at the end of the round I would post a summary with appropriate flavor text.

I roll for everyones initiative
Adjust initiative scores for individual, then break the results into groups
the first group consists of all characters who have a higher initiative score than the monster(s)/opponent(s), while characters in the remaining groups have a lower initiative than the monster(s)/opponent(s).
Characters in first group react in posting order.
Monster(s)/Opponent(s) act
The remaining characters in the remaining group(s) react in posting order.

Just waiting for Holbrecht to respond IC before advancing the story line

Now that the characters are out of the way, how do you want to handle initiatives? do you want to do individual initiatives or block initiatives? Roll for yourselves or have me roll at the beginning of the action?

@Caelius: Where are you getting the +8 Acrobatics? By my calculations it should be +6 (Class skill 3/ Rank +1/ Dexterity +2). I think you are adding in the +2 non-armored bonus. But on the plus side it looks like you've only spent 11 of your 12 skill points. Other then that it looks good.

@ Agnatha: You still have one more ability point to spend, by my calculations you've only spent 19 of your 20 points. Also your AC, Touch AC, Initiative, Reflex save, and all your Dex based skills seem to be off by 1 point.

@ Holbrecht: Your CMD is off 1 point, it should be 13 (10+ 0 Strength+ 3 Dexterity) instead of 14. Other than that it looks good.

@ Tarith: What alignment is Tarith? Your Survival check seems to be off by 1. It should be +6 (3 class skill/ +1 rank/ +2 Wisdom) instead of +7

OK, as soon as Poor Wandering One posts Caelius' profile and I get a chance to review it we'll be ready to go.

Sorry this is taking so long. I'm currently going over everyones characters.

@ Davor Mason: Everything looks good so far.

@ Ragnor Yver: As an Ulfen you receive Skald as a bonus language. You seem to be over by 1 hit point, by my calculations you should have 14 hp's (8 +2 Con +1 Favored Class +3 Toughness).It appears that you haven't applied your Armor check penalty to your skills, also you haven't purchased a Artisan's kit for your Craft: weapon skill (without this you suffer a -2 penalty to your skill check). Lastly, you show a MW longsword as your weapon wielded, and a MW Aldori dueling sword in your equipment, so which one is it?
Edit: Your Swim check should be +0/+1 (+1 Strength/-1 Armor).

Benefit: An intensified spell increases the maximum number of damage dice by 5 levels. You must actually have sufficient caster levels to surpass the maximum in order to benefit from this feat. No other variables of the spell are affected, and spells that inflict damage that is not modified by caster level are not affected by this feat.

Since the damage dealt by Ray of Frost does not increase with caster level I would say it is ineligible for this feat.

What are your speech preferences? Bold or just quotations? Are you able to make the text smaller and smaller or just the one time? I tried embedding the codes but it didn't work.

Not speaking for the DM, but I personally find bold with quotations much easier for people to notice when you're talking or if your character is having a inner monolog. Highlights to the players and DM what is actually being heard so there won't be a mix up. I also put inner monolog in italics.

This is normally the way I do it and it would make it easier for me and others to follow along.

I had a hard time deciding between everyone and decided to go with six instead of five to give more people a chance to play. If/when anyone drops I will come here first looking for replacements before opening up a general recruitment thread.